Year: 2007
Type: article
Abstract: Although Japanese society is known as a collective society, basically, Japanese self-existence is not merging with its community as it is.Japanese characteristics that are oriented to the community -as they are reflected in their vertical society concept and how people differentiate the concept of uchi / soto -do not eliminate Japanese self-existence nor their individualistic.This writing describes about Japanese self-existence in their language by considering the following factors: predicates psychological, addressing and kinship, honorofic and polite expresion, donatory verb, the pronoun jibun, and private/public expression.It can be said that, in order to describe about Japanese self-existence, it is important to identify their absolute/relational self and public/private expression.Keywords: Japanese self-
Author: Akhmad Saifudin
Institution: Universitas Dian Nuswantoro
Language: English
Topic: Language and Culture
Subfield: Linguistics and Language
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W1589274412